Osbaston Farmhouse

Osbaston Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates back to the early 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a roughcast timber frame with red brick infill set on a rendered brick plinth, topped with a slate roof. The building has a basic L-plan layout, consisting of a hall range with two and a half framed bays and a baffle entry on the left. There is a two-bay gabled cross-wing that projects to the rear on the left side.

The farmhouse has early 20th-century four-paned sash windows throughout, including one in the first floor gable and two narrow windows below in the center. The hall range has two paired sash windows on the ground floor and one in a gabled eaves dormer directly above. A six-panel door, with the top panels now glazed, is located to the left under a flat-roofed trellised porch. A late 19th-century purple brick ridge stack is situated directly above.

The left return of the cross-wing features a gable on the right and a gabled eaves dormer on the left. Below, there are two four-paned sashes in rendered shaped surrounds with projecting keystones. Another six-panel door, with the top panels now glazed, is set in a plain pilastered doorcase with a bracketed gabled hood. There are also late 19th-century gabled and lean-to additions at the rear.

Inside, the ground-floor rooms have chamfered ceiling beams. The main staircase features stick balusters, an open string, and a wreathed handrail, while a subsidiary straight-flight oak staircase is located to the right of the hall range. The timber frame was mostly plastered over at the time of the last survey in October 1986, but a collar and tie-beam truss is visible at the gable end of the hall range and is partly exposed at the gable of the cross-wing. The building has single purlins and short straight windbraces, and the first floor has wide boarded oak floorboards. There is also a brick and sandstone-walled cellar at the front of the cross-wing.